This document discusses the Kids Afield program, which uses cameras and outdoor exploration to promote connections between children and nature. It provides details about the program, including that it is led by Robin Long and supported by Dr. Smith. It describes how the program uses kid-friendly cameras to allow children to document the natural world from their perspective. This empowers students and can foster empathy. Over time, the children in the program became interested in birds, allowing for inquiry-driven learning about bird migration and life cycles. Student photographs are then used for assessment and to promote discussion.
Di Collins, Journeying Gently, UK
EOE 2011 Metsäkartano, Finland
Into the Woods: About the significance of wood and wilderness for Youth Work in Europe.
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A workshop given by The Learning Escape at the Eco Schools show 2012. Covering Nature Deficit Disorder, Outdoor Learning and Environmental Citizenship. Educators from Whitchurch and Danesfield Manor Schools also talk about how their Learning Escapes have inspired Outdoor Learning and help to promote Environmental Citizenship.
Includes:
Topic, developmental level and rationale
Thematic web
Main Ideas
General Objectives
Previous Knowledge
Theoretical Underpinnings
Curriculum Strands
List of Resources
List of Skills
Evaluation Strategies
List of Activities
Activity Plan (sample)
Integration of Bird Theme into the Environment
Parental Involvement
This presentation is on outdoor nature education. It includes techniques and tools which teachers could use to improve their classroom experience for their students.
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Mancos Public Library has developed "Outdoor Adventures at Your Library", an afterschool program for tweens; this program takes place entirely outdoors (even in winter!) two days a week. View this powerpoint to get an overview of the program. For further information, contact Kate Kearns and/or Charlene Swansen at MPL, 970.533.7600.
Museums Victoria's new Pauline Gandel Children's Gallery opened December 2016 at Melbourne Museum. Brief overview of the partnership thinking, theory, methodology and outcome of the project, by Head Exhibitions of Museums Victoria.
Delivered at MuseumNext Melbourne, February 2017.
Pretty pictures at the end ;)
Di Collins, Journeying Gently, UK
EOE 2011 Metsäkartano, Finland
Into the Woods: About the significance of wood and wilderness for Youth Work in Europe.
Inspiring environmental citizenship by the learning escapeMark Brown, FRSA
A workshop given by The Learning Escape at the Eco Schools show 2012. Covering Nature Deficit Disorder, Outdoor Learning and Environmental Citizenship. Educators from Whitchurch and Danesfield Manor Schools also talk about how their Learning Escapes have inspired Outdoor Learning and help to promote Environmental Citizenship.
Includes:
Topic, developmental level and rationale
Thematic web
Main Ideas
General Objectives
Previous Knowledge
Theoretical Underpinnings
Curriculum Strands
List of Resources
List of Skills
Evaluation Strategies
List of Activities
Activity Plan (sample)
Integration of Bird Theme into the Environment
Parental Involvement
This presentation is on outdoor nature education. It includes techniques and tools which teachers could use to improve their classroom experience for their students.
2015 Oregon Library Association Conference, Eugene, OR: Join a conversation about cultivating creativity and imagination in children and youth by focusing instructional resources through a prism with polished edges reflecting first principles of instruction, the guided-inquiry method, and expectations embodied in today’s educational standards. Discover potential for "blind spots" in communication and collaboration.
Science and the Young Child
This is a resource about how Neurology and Play are incorporated into developmentally appropriate science activities utilizing the essential questioning skills of scientific inquiry in young children.
Mancos Public Library has developed "Outdoor Adventures at Your Library", an afterschool program for tweens; this program takes place entirely outdoors (even in winter!) two days a week. View this powerpoint to get an overview of the program. For further information, contact Kate Kearns and/or Charlene Swansen at MPL, 970.533.7600.
Museums Victoria's new Pauline Gandel Children's Gallery opened December 2016 at Melbourne Museum. Brief overview of the partnership thinking, theory, methodology and outcome of the project, by Head Exhibitions of Museums Victoria.
Delivered at MuseumNext Melbourne, February 2017.
Pretty pictures at the end ;)
1. Marilyn Fenster
Elementary Teacher
Gail Hanss
Elementary Teacher
Robin Long
7-12 Biology Teacher
Kids Afield Team
With support from Dr.
Smith,
Lower School Division Head
Kids AfieldKids Afield
Robin Long – site manager
earthwalkertoo@gmail.com
2. Kids AfieldKids Afield Nature & Te chno lo g yNature & Te chno lo g y
•What
•Why
originsorigins
researchresearch
• How
inside
outside
•Learning
children's
teachers’
sharing
Resources
& Extensions
4. Camera Promotes
Empathy
With Photos
…see world through others’ eyes
…see world through self-selected
camera eye
bootleg@dschool.stanford.edu
Young Citizen Naturalists
Adult Environmentalists
Emerged from
5. • limits field of focus
• archives outdoor experiences for
indoor/online sharing
• employs “hybrid thinking”
• taps into intrinsic motivation
• empowers students
6. .
I believe that a central goal
of modern education should
be … — to stimulate both
ways of knowing in the
world: digital and direct
experience.
Richard Louv
The ideal
scientist thinks
like a poet and
works like a
bookkeeper.
E.O. Wilson
Technology + Natural World Experiences
Can = Deep Learning
Can = Environmental Awareness
7. 3 Key Resources
Time for exploring outdoors
Exposure to Adults that respect
• outdoor environmentts
• children’s ideas & feelings
2 Keys to Promoting Kids
Connections to Nature
8. 1. Kid-Cameras
2. Introduce w/focus
3. Agency
• fit kids’ hands
• tough!
• easy to use
• $ 30 – 35
• require batteries
9. 2. Introduce w/focus
3. Agency
Cameras as valued tools
Care of equipment
Care of one another
Care of space
Care of life sharing space
How Birds became a Class Focus
Valuing students’ interests
11. Birds – the kid-connection that stuck!
BENEFITS
Present all year
Global Connections via migration
Inquiry Learning arises naturally
Art, Music, Writing
Strong intrinsic attraction
Great Free online Resources
12. Jay Stetzer
..John Burroughs, “Knowledge without
love will not stick. But if love comes
first, knowledge is sure to follow.” It’s
our responsibility as parents and
teachers to make sure that love comes
first.
David Sobel, Orion Magazine,
July/August 2012
Imagination & Play The Discovery of Mouse Town
19. Resource materials for Kids Afield are archived
At :
http://storify.com/earthwalker/kids-afield
woodswalkertoo@gmail.com
twitter.com/earthwalkertoo
connectchildrenntonature.wikispaces.com
20. PHOTOGRAPH CHANGES OVER TIME
PLANTS or areas of plants
SIGNS OF LIFE: leaf being consumed, animals prints,
decaying log, leaf litter, emerging buds, etc.
EROSION
TRACES of water flow
PATTERNS left by mud
SKY
MATERIALS left out for animals (bird food, fruit, etc)
A PUDDLE
SIGNS of human movement in and out of an area
SNOW melting
DATA - INQUIRY DRIVEN
Shadows - Plant growth - Leaf drop -
Color changes – Bird nest materials –
Bird feeder experiments – Trash –
Spider webs – Plant damage – Melting-
Visual changes with temperature or light
Photo scavenger hunt-
Identifying plants & ” bugs” –
Camouflage challenges – Story
or poetry starters – ‘favorites’-
Kid-generated Games/Activities